Loss Quotes - Page 31

• Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!

  Vince Lombardi

  Winning, Coaching, Winner

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• I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.

  Paula Poundstone

  Memories, Thinking, Presidential

  "Paula Poundstone: Look What the Cat Dragged In". TV Movie, November 7, 2006.

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• That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect.

  Andrew Solomon

  Suicide, Essence, Chance

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

  Andrew Solomon

  Despair, Anticipation, Flaws

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• Imagine a weight-loss program at the end of which, instead of better health, good looks, and hot romantic prospects, you die. Somalia had become just this kind of spa.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Hot, Looks, Weight

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.65, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled

  Beryl Bainbridge

  People, Income, This Life

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• There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Engaged

  "America Strikes Back: Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and Secretary of the Army Thomas White Hold a Press Conference". "CNN Live Event/Special", www.cnn.com. October 11, 2001.

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• Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Nba, Teammate

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• Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

  Morgan Wootten

  Basketball, Winning, Nba

  Morgan Wootten, Joe Wootten (2012). “Coaching Basketball Successfully-3rd Edition”, p.15, Human Kinetics

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• In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created to convert government bonds into fiat money, and the people lost over half of their monetary assets to the hidden tax of inflation. In the South, printing presses accomplished the same effect, and the monetary loss was total.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Government, People

  "The creature from Jekyll Island". Book by G. Edward Griffin, 1994.

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• Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?

  Laozi

  Self, Balance, Matter

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.

  Anderson Cooper

  Knowledge, Thinking, Talking

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• Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.

  Thomas Brooks

  Trials, World, Misery

  Thomas Brooks, Jay Patrick Green, Sr. (2000). “A Mute Christian Under the Rod & Apples of Gold”, p.111, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and it fear loss. Ask your heart if attachment has replaced love. If we speak to our heart, it will always tell us the truth.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Attachment, Needs

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• For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring any other man on this earth into the cloud where I dwell in Your light, that is, Your darkness, where I am lost and abashed. I cannot explain to any other man the anguish which is Your joy nor the loss which is the Possession of You, nor the distance from all things which is the arrival in You, nor the death which is the birth in You because I do not know anything about it myself and all I know is that I wish it were over - I wish it were begun.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Distance, Men

  Thomas Merton (1974). “A Thomas Merton Reader”, Image

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• On her new LP, Shatter, Jude Johnstone examines heartbreak and loss with such tender resignation that I wept in acknowledgement of its artful simplicity. A lesson in melodic grace delivered by as fine a singer-songwriter as any I know.

  Rodney Crowell

  Simplicity, Grace, Lessons

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• Today, there is a whole generation of Christian men who are laughing at things that ought to make them weep, and not a few of them will suffer shipwreck, and some-the loss of their souls. Let the indiscriminate viewer beware.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Christian, Men, Laughing

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• I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me to come to his studio -- which I did -- I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I said, ‘Simple – it’s a loss of nerve.

  Morton Feldman

  Simple, Drawing, Upset

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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• Intuition is neither the ability to engage prophecy
  nor a means of avoiding financial loss or painful relationships.
  It is actually the ability to use energy data
  to make decisions in the immediate moment.

  Caroline Myss

  Mean, Data, Decision

  Caroline Myss (2010). “Anatomy Of The Spirit”, p.179, Random House

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• Never blame another person for your personal choices - you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.

  Caroline Myss

  Recovery, Choices, Decision

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• No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

  Ellen Terry

  Skills, Actresses, Youth

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

  James Hillman

  Mean, Soul, Want

  "The Soul Of Winter: A Call To Deepen" by Dr. Judith Rich, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2009.

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• The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Struggle, Doe

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.134, PublicAffairs

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• From a strictly economic point of view, buying gold in a major inflation and holding it probably presents the least risk of capital loss of any investment or speculation.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Views, Risk, Gold

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• There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the shifting tonalities of light that transform the domestic and ordinary into the strange and extraordinary that, combined with tenderness of address, approach the worshipful and make a number of these poems so moving and distinctive.

  August Kleinzahler

  Moving, Motherhood, Light

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